Home Textiles Today - September 8, 2003

Someone's finally getting it. "It" is the concept that home textiles can be a prosperous business outside the narrow confines of conventional home textiles retailing. It's been a decade or so that many suppliers of home textiles have been bemoaning what they consider fact: If you don't sell the Top 10 on Home Textiles Today's Top 50 retailers, you basically can't succeed.

• Business Today
• Dollar General pumps profit in Q2
• Home helps retailers pick up pace in August
• August marks second straight uptick
• Same-stores enjoy late summer push

• News
• Former Beacon plant burns
• Feizy adds svp, gm; realigns staff
• Caesarea spreads its wings
• West Elm ready to sprout limbs
• Sferra goes wild with Nat'l Geo.
• Javits show program schedule
• P'tex KERP challenged by creditors, union, paper
• Terrisol now known as Karsten America
• Down Lite builds on FL Wright legacy
• Scala spans broader spectrum
• Soft home at Baker taking off
• DTI's new name: Invista
• Retail briefs
• 828 grows Cabana collection
• HSN names Jones as vp, soft home
• For the record
• Charles Craft builds staff with two sales positions
• Biederlack taps sales mgr.
• Sears mulls Grand growth
• And the Oscar goes to Rose Tree
• Sheridan USA takes tiered tact
• Already growing, Maples looks for more
• Taking the place of P'tex
• HomeTex design award ceremony roster finalized
• Terrisol adds designer
• Executive Women set b'fast date
• Home & Harmony opens NYC showroom

• Opinion Today
• The big bang